The Big Book Bash is coming up! The Big Book Bash is a book festival for kids and teens , featuring many Wellington and Wairarapa children’s and Young Adult (YA) authors. It’s all happening this weekend on December 2nd in Carterton. There’s fabulous line-up of well-known NZ authors, music, workshops and a carnival atmosphere. Libraries,…
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Fantastic Free Writing Webinar: How to Write For a Living! Ask all the questions you want of an experienced traditionally-published and indie-published writer in this free writing webinar. LIVE: Holly Lisle answers questions about writing for a living How to write professionally (which means to write fiction and get paid for it on a regular…
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Take a chance on yourself and your writing! Holly Lisle has limited registration on her writing-career-survival course, HOW TO THINK SIDEWAYS. The course will only be taking new students until Thursday, March 5th, at 11:59PM USA Eastern Time. After that, no new students will be able to join for a year. I stared writing…
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Do you harness your writing potential? Or are you like many writers, doing what comes easy to you, without learning how to master the difficult tasks? Harness your writing potential with a Writing Course and bonus prizes! Writing a book utilizes many different skills, some from the right hemisphere of your brain and some from…
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I have taken many of Holly Lisle’s classes over the past three or four years and have LOVED every one of them. She’s a great teacher, outlining principles in a way that gets me fast results every time. In a few days, Holly will be closing How To Think Sideways, one of her large online…
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Sign up to Write On!, my writing newsletter, before 10 May and you’ll get a FREE 3-week FLASH FICTION COURSE by an author who has published over 30 novels and developed a novel writing school. A discount coupon for any of the short courses on her writing site Regular newsletters containing writing tips, techniques and…
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When writing fiction, have you ever struggled to make your story feel alive? Have the scenes sat staring at you, flat on the page? We’ve all been there. Imagine your stories coming to life and enticing your readers to devour your words with hungry anticipation. Stories that feel so realistic and compelling that you have…
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My story Dad’s Wisdom was mentioned in a review on in the Baby Teeth anthology recently on The Horror Fiction Review. About my story, the reviewer said, “Other very good stories include “Dad’s Wisdom” by Eileen Miller about a boy taking advice from his dad on what to feed a dragon under his bed;” Short…
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Author-illustrator Ruth Paul taught a children’s picture book workshop at The Children’s Bookshop in Wellington last weekend. I was excited to attend because she’s one of my youngest daughter’s favourite authors and is an inspiring speaker Ruth entertained over 25 participants with advice about writing, illustrating and publishing picture books in New Zealand and for…
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